CHAPTER XXIX.

CHARLESTON.

A City of Ruins. -- Our Welcome. -- Charleston before the War.

-- The Seducer of States. -- Siege of the City. -- Removal of

the People. -- Assertion of the Charleston _Courier_. -- The

Evacuation. -- Blowing up of the Ironclads. -- Firing the City.

-- Bursting the Guns. -- Twenty-First Colored Regiment. --

Colonel Bennett occupies the City. -- Fifty-Fourth

Massachusetts extinguishing the Flames. -- "Gillmore's Town."

-- The "Swamp Angel." -- The _Courier_ Office. -- The Banks. --

South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service. -- The Mills

House. -- The Churches. -- The great Fire of 1861. --

Devastation. -- Slave Merchants. -- The Bell of St. Michael's.

-- The Guard-House. -- The Slave-Mart. -- Letters of the

Slave-Traders. -- Colonel Woodford in the Office of the

_Courier_. -- Sermon of Rev. Dr. Porter. -- A Yankee in his

Bed. -- Joy of the Colored People. -- "Rosa's" Mother. --

Washington's Birthday. -- John Brown in Charleston. --

Humiliation of the Rebels. -- Union Men. -- The Old Flag. --

How the People were cheated. 462

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